Dr. Sunil Shroff is an Indian urologist, transplant surgeon and a social entrepreneur. Sunil, a campaigner for organ donation in India, is the founder and managing trustee of the Mohan Foundation; A non-profit organization promoting organ donation and transplantation in India since 1997.
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Wiki/Biography
Dr. Sunil Shroff was born in 1953 (age 67 years; as of 2020) in Sahibganj, Bihar and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He studied at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Gill Nagar, Chennai from 1965 to 1970. After that, he took MBBS and MS degrees from Prince of Wales Medical College (now Patna Medical College) and then went to UK in 1983 for further studies. There, he achieved Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, UK in 1986, followed by specialization in urology, andrology and kidney transplantation from the Institute of Urology and Nephrology, London. After that, he did a post-graduation course in Urology from University College of London (UCL) and started his career in the medical field.
Family
siblings
Sunil Shroff has two brothers, Arun Shroff and Sanjay Shroff, who are also medical practitioners. Not much information is available about his family.
Arun Shroff, brother of Dr. Sunil Shroff
wife and children
He married Shaila Shroff, a Hindi content editor at MedIndia, on 28 February 1989. The couple has two children – a son named Yash Shroff, and a daughter named Ruchi Shroff.
Dr. Sunil Shroff with his wife and daughter
Dr. Sunil Shroff’s son Yash Shroff with his wife Divya Shroff
livelihood
After completing his formal education in the medical field, he worked in various senior positions in the UK; Worked as lecturer, registrar and senior registrar at St. Peter’s Hospital, Middlesex Hospital and Royal London Hospital in London and then returned to India in 1995. After returning to India, he headed the newly formed Department of Urology and Renal. Transplantation at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (SRMC&RI) in Porur, Chennai from 1995 to 2015. While serving there, he trained 18 urologists and 40 allied health care specialists and many other nurses over the years. In April 2015, he started working as Senior Consultant Urologist and Transplant Surgeon at Madras Medical Mission Hospital.
Dr. Sunil Shroff has made significant contributions to raising awareness for organ donation and transplantation and the development of health care information technology. Here are some highlights of his social work:
Mohan Foundation
Sunil Shroff conceived the Mohan Foundation in 1996 and began operating it in August 1997. Through counseling and facilitating organ and tissue donation, Dr. Shroff’s NGO has done a revolutionary work in India and has helped 11,609 people till 2020. The initiative, which started in Chennai, has spread across India and as of 2020 has offices in Jaipur, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.
Work in Healthcare Information Technology
- He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of www.medindia.net, one of India’s leading healthcare websites, empowering consumers, doctors and healthcare professionals globally with reliable, accurate, timely and personalized health information. Is working towards. All its services are free.
- He formed the Indian Organ Transplant Registry (www.translantindia.com) to collect data related to organ transplantation from various centers in the country.
- Dr. Shroff along with a group of other doctors formed the Medical Computer Society of India; A unique Indian society that encourages the use of computers in medical science to provide better patient care and reduce treatment costs.
Affiliations (past and present)
- A member at the Amsterdam Forum on the Care of Live Kidney Donors in 2004.
- President of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation.
- Convener of the Indian Transplantation Registry under the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation.
- President of Nephrology, Urology and Transplantation Society of SAARC Countries from 2013 to 2015.
- Founding member of “National Bio-Medical Ethics and Law” (NOBEL), which works towards upholding ethics in medical practice.
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Urology from 2006 to 2011.
- President of Madras Urological Society from 2010 to 2011.
- Editor of a quarterly publication titled “Indian Transplant Newsletter”, which has been reaching over 2,000 organ and tissue transplant professionals in India and abroad every quarter since 1997.
- Member of a State Advisory Board of Transplant Committee for the State of Rajasthan for creation of Cadaver Transplant Programme.
- Member of the Advisory Board as representative of Mohan Foundation for the Tamil Nadu Cadaver Transplant Committee in collaboration with the Health Department, Govt. Of Tamil Nadu. The Board consists of 7 members and the Principal Health Secretary of Tamil Nadu is its Chairman.
Awards and Honors
- Outstanding Contribution to Society by Mithra, Chennai (2000)
- Honored to deliver the lecture at Jodhpur Medical College Hospital in memory of its famous surgeon (2005)
- Recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from Rotary International, Annasagar, Chennai (2007)
- Awarded by Indian Medical Association, Vijayawada for delivering speech on deceased donation (2008)
- “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” from TIECON (TIE- The Indus Entrepreneur), Chennai (2010)
- “Agarwal Excellence Award” by the Agarwal Society of Tamil Nadu (2011)
- “Best Teacher Award” (2012) by Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Professor SM Nawab Memorial Oration (2012) at the Annual Conference of the Association of Surgeons of India, Bihar Chapter (BASICON 2012) held at Purnia, Bihar.
- “National Self-Demonstration Award” (2016) where he was called the “Father of Deceased Organ Donation in India”.
- “K.Venkatanarayana Tanker Foundation Awareness Award” for creating awareness about deceased organ donation.
Facts/General Knowledge
- Sunil Shroff’s ancestors are from Rajasthan; However, he was born in Bihar and brought up in Tamil Nadu.
- Sunil Shroff has given up non-veg, black coffee and carbonated drinks to keep his body healthy.
- He was the first physician to transplant a kidney from a brain-dead patient bitten by a cobra.
- He was the first physician to perform a kidney transplant operation on an HIV patient in India.
- Due to the contributions of his NGO, the rate of deceased organ and tissue donation increased rapidly in a country where almost no donation was taking place when the Mohan Foundation was launched in 1997.
- In October 2020, Dr. Sunil Shroff, along with Riteish Deshmukh, appeared on the Karamveer special episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), hosted by Amitabh Bachchan.
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